Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun prp] [modal v] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we can not countenance though sir , is any widening o of the route that they seek to go down , to have these sites included in the greenbelt , and that 's to say to entertain the argument that the whole of Skelton ought to be washed-over . |
| 2 | In January 1928 he was invited back to speak at the Cambridge Union , on the motion that the Church of England ought to be disestablished . |
| 3 | The greater part of the property of Britain used to be surrounded by a kind of magic circle within which the law of honesty could not penetrate . |
| 4 | The Bank of England used to be the City 's leader ; in recent times it has seemed content to be its cheerleader . |
| 5 | Finally , it suggested that interconnection with the Republic of Ireland ought to be re-eastablished . |